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ATTAKATHI (2012) Director: Pa. Ranjith Casts: Dinesh, Nandhitha Music: Santosh Narayanan Language: Tamil Genre: Romantic Comedy Love is an oft-beat subject in Tamil Cinema but looking from the unique promotions and coming from a Venkat Prabhu’s assistant, Pa.Ranjith, one could expect a fresh treatment in this film.   Will Attakathi , a film containing full bunch of debutants, be able to join the list of sleeper hits of the year? Synopsis Dinakaran alias, Dina is an average looking, tutorial student who comes from a middle class family. Dina or as his friends call him, ‘Attakathi’ (Cardboard Knife) does not have any ambitions or aspirations in life, but chasing for love behind any girls he sees. But when you expect him to dread over a one side love, he just moves on casually to another girl. Constant failures pushes him to give up on love. Life takes a turn when he enters collage where he is being hailed as ‘Route Thala’, translated from a wimpy young ma...

Naan (2012) Director: Jeeva Sankar Casts: Vijay Anthony, Rupa Manjari, Anuya, Siddharth Music: Vijay Anthony Language: Tamil Genre: Crime-Thriller ‘Naan’ is special as it marks the debut of music director Vijay Anthony in lead role. Besides being the producer, it is also significant as it also marks his 25 th film as a composer. It is not so common to see a music director taking a hero avatar and therefore it have evoked much curiosity among the film circle. So does ‘Naan’ live up to the hype? ‘Naan’ tells a story of a boy named Karthik (Vijay Anthony) who kills his mother after witnessing an affair with a policeman in his house. He enters the boys’ home and becomes a reformed man when he is released.  However, things get heated up when he is stuck in a bus accident. He takes up a dead man’s identity and makes it is own due to the denial in society. He joins a medical college and meets Ashok. Life travels smoothly for Karthik until his real identit...